Relic Home and Blacksmith Shop

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

My Grandmother Sarah Pritchett Rigby of Fairview was born in Fairview in 1884 . Her mother died when Grandma was only seven years old. She married Charles Martin Rigby and gave birth to seven children. In 1920, her husband Charles Martin was in an accident in the coal mine. He was crushed against the wall of the mine by a train car. He was taken to Salt Lake in a horse and buggy, where he died. Grandma Rigby seen many hard times in her life. I found this scrapbook among her things. She had pasted recipes clipped out of newspapers and pasted them into a catalog of Studebaker motor vehicles.

The recipes represent that time period (about 1928), But also, the way she had chosen to save them was ingenious and very resourceful. Perhaps it was nothing out of the ordinary for that time period.

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The Mt. Pleasant Relic Home is said to be the place where the final Black Hawk Treaty was signed. This event benefited not only the residents of Mt. Pleasant but also every settlement in the south central Utah area. We also just discovered in the history collection “Utah History since Statehood” that our Relic Home was actually designed by Brigham Young. Brigham, a carpenter by trade, actually laid the planks in the front hall.

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